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(No Model.)

' 1v1. L. W. MARTINOT.

WASH BOILEB..

Patented- July 15, 1890.

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vessel 10 of any approved shape, preferably UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY L. WV. MARTNOT, OF NFA/V YORK, N. Y.

WASH-Bonnin.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 432,419, dated July 15, 1890.

Application tiled March 1l, 1890.` Serial No. 343,457. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

i Be it known that I, MARY L. WV. MARTINOT, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Vash-Boilersof which the following isa full, clear, and eXact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in wash-boilers or bleachers, and has for its object to provide a device adapted to be placed over a fire or upon a stove, and so constructed that the articles to be Washed may be sorted and classified and each lot separately boiled or steamed and rinsed in one general receptacle.

A further object of the invention is to provide a convenient means for removing the clothes when washed and fora constant circulation of water through them in the-process of washing.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a vertical section through the boiler on lineV 1 1 of Fig. 3, the buckets being shown in side elevation. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Fig. 3 with the buckets removed. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the body of the boiler with the buckets in position and the cover of the boiler removed. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section 4on line 4 4 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the buckets detached, a portion of the bucket being broken away to disclose the bottom thereof.

The body of the device consists of a metal rectangular, and provided at its bottom with a faucet 11 and conveniently-located handles llf. The vessel is further provided at its top with a cap or cover 12, which cover is usually made to lift from the vessel. Upon the inner face of the vessel, near its upper edge, horizontal flanges 13 are attached, and the cover is preferably made with an inner and outer flange 14 and 15, respectively, between which flanges the top edge of the vessel projects when the cover is in position thereon.

The vessel is divided into a series of compartments A by transverse and longitudinal, preferably vertically corrugated or iluted, partitions 1G, the said partitions being attached in any suitable or approved manner to the inner faces of the vessel and to each other. These partitions maybe constructed as a nxture or maybe made readily detachable from the vessel. A corrugated metal lining 16, similar to the partitions 16, is carried entirely around the sides and ends of the vessel, as best shown in Fig. 4. The upper edges of the corrugated lining 16 are located below the flanges l13, which latter serve to direct the water into the compartments A, and `the length of the linings and partitions is such that they terminate between the center and the bottom of the vessel, forming thereby a lower unobstructed water-chamber B.

Vithin each compartment A a horizontal, preferably spider-like, false bottoml'?A is secured, and each compartment is adapted to contain a bucket 18, which almost fills the compartment, and each bucket is provided with a perforated or reticulated bottom 19, and preferably a bail 20, whereby the bucket may be conveniently placed within the vessel or removedtherefrom, for the purpose of rinsing the clothes, for instance.

I desire it to be understood, as heretofore stated, that the form of the device may be varied, or that any desired number of compartments may be employed, and, further, that the shape of the buckets depends usually u-pon the contour of the compartments into which they are to be placed.

In the operation of washing, the chamber B is nearly filled with water and the clothes are IOO the steam entering the perforated bottoms of the buckets is carried in to the water-chamber B, thus rinsing the clothes. This operation is repeated constantly while the water is at the boiling-point, and the clothes are e'lleetually and expeditiously cleaned. The clothes are not, as will be observed, actually boiled; but the dirt is softened by the action of the rising steam, and is removed from the surface of the clothes by the boiling water flowing through the buckets downward into its chamber. The corrugated linings and partitions materially assist t-he Water in rising upward to flow over into the buckets, as a series of gutters are thereby formed and the water is directed at the sides inte the buckets by reason of the horizontal body-flanges 13. After the clothes have been subjected to this process of cleaning they may bc readily removed from the body of the receptacle or Vessel and carried in separate lots to separate vessels for purposes of rinsing.

As the clothes are divided into lots, the cleaner clothes-such as table-lin en dsc-m ay be first removed from the vessel and rinsed, thus obviating the necessity of drawing the linen out of the vessel, when massed therein, by means of a clothes-stick or similar device.

Having thus described my invention, I'

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. In awasl1-boiler or similar device, the combination, with a vessel divided into a series of compartments, the walls of which compartments are corrugated, of receptacles, each containing a perforated bottom and tted to the said compartments, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a wash-boiler or similar device, the combination, with a vessel divided into a series of compartments the walls of which compartments are corrugated, and horizontal apertured false bottoms located in said compartmcnts, ol' receptacles, each containing a perforated bottom and fitted to the said compartments being adapted to rest upon the spider-like partitions therein, substantially as shown and described.

In a wash-boiler or similar device, the combination, with avessel divided into a series of compartments the walls of which are corrugated, a water-chamber at the bottom beneath the said compartments, and spiderlike false bottoms horizontally supported in the compartments, of interior flanges proj octing over the outer side Walls of the compartments, and receptacles provided with a reticulated bottom fitted to the compartments and adapted to rest upon the spider-like partitions therein, substantially as shown and described.

4. In a wash-boiler or similar device, the combination, with a vessel divided inte a series of compartments, the walls of which compartments are corrugated, and provided below the said compartments with a water-chamber having a fauceted outlet, spider-like false bottoms horizontally located in said compartments between their centers and lower ends, and a horizontal flange attached to the upper inner portion of the vessel and extending over the outer walls of the compartments, of a dctachable lid fitted to the vessel above the u pper flanges, and bucket-like receptacles provided with a reticulated or perforated bottom and an attached bail, the said receptacles being removably iitted in the said com partments and adapted to rest upon the spider like false bottoms thereof, as and for the purpose specified.

MARY L. W. MARTINO'I.

litnessesz J. F. ACKER, Jr., C. SEDGWICK. 

